MND Bringing Data from NASA Satellites to Your Classroom

1. MND Bringing Data from NASA Satellites to Your Classroom Focus Lesson: Earth's Energy Budget – Seasonal Cycles in Net Radiative Flux Tina R Coleman Representing the MND Team

2. Earth's Energy Budget – Seasonal Cycles in Net Radiative Flux

3. What is CERES? • Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES)

4. What is the purpose of CERES? To perform measurements of Earth's "radiation budget", which includes the energy that reaches Earth from the Sun, and the energy that goes from Earth back out to space.

5. To perform measurements of the Earth's "radiation budget", which includes the energy that reaches Earth from the Sun, and the energy that goes from Earth back out to space.

6. December 2003

7. March 2004

8. June 2004

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